 Sept 19 - Feb 9 2025

 Ljubljana

The National Gallery in Ljubljana will display a selection of artworks from the Zagreb Museum of Arts and Crafts, which is currently closed for renovation following the 2020 earthquake.

The exhibition Old Masters from the Collections of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, features paintings, sculptures and prints by famous authors, their workshops or followers from the second half of the 14th century to the 18th century.

The painting collection is showcased through nineteen works by representative Italian and northern Old Masters and their workshops, such as Andrea Schiavone, Jan Victors, Leandro Bassano, Francesco Cairo, or followers of Paolo Veneziano, Guido Reni and Balthasar van den Bossche.

The sculpture collection shows the masters who were important mainly for the subalpine tradition of wooden polychrome sculpture. Their works originally made up parts of altarpieces in in South Tyrol, Upper Austria, Bavaria, Styria and Croatia.

The 15 featured sculptures include those by the Styrian master Hans von Judenburg, the Bavarian master Hans Degler, and notable Styrian Baroque masters, like Veit Königer of Graz, Joseph Holzinger and Ferdinand Gallo.

The prints collection features works in various techniques by Croatian, Italian, French, Dutch and German artists, including graphic translations of works by Julije Klović/Giulio Clovio, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Peter Paul Rubens as well as original etchings by Jacques Callot, Giuseppe Vasi and other notable printmakers.

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